USPTO Patents Application 09870801

2. A system including:

By "Stefik," reference is made to each Stefik et al. reference
cited in the asserted TnterTrust oatents (c.c USP 5,634,012,
issued May 27, 1997) and to USP 5,715,403, issued Feb. 3,
1998; further reference is made to all related methods practiced
at Xerox PARC and/or ContentGuard prior to InterTrust's
alleged or actual priority date.

(a) a first apparatus
including.

E.g., a computer. Repositories, for example, '^provide a core set
of services for the transmission of digital works." (*012 13:43)
C403, '012 Figs. 1-4B, Glossary).

(1) user controls,

See '403 14:16-38 (the hardware embodiment of a repository
comprises processing and storage means, and external
interface); '403 14:16-15:4 (repository operating system etc.);
*403 16:62-6 (repository interface may include keyboard etc.).
'403 8:34-39, '012 8:23-28 (''Examples of a rendering system
may be a computer system, a digital audio system, or a
nrintpr *40? 1 S''^4-46 TreDOsitories can be workstations^

rpnn<iitnrv cnmmunications Dort for transmission of digital
works etc.

(3) a processor,

repository processor.

(4) a memory storing:

repository memory storing:

(i) a first secure container
containing a governed item,
the first secure container
governed item being at
least in part encrypted; the
first secure container
having been received from
a second apparatus;

"secure container" is indefinite, but as used by InterTrust in its
3-1 Statement would include the "digital works" described in
Stefik, such as movies, digital certificates or other authorization
information, {see e.g. '403 cols. 9-11, 22:65-23:1, 41:52-55,
44:52), "and any accompanying interpreter (e.g. software) that
may be required for recreating the work." (*403 6:48-54).
Content may be compressed or encrypted ('403 9:60 and Table
2), and the digital works may be objecL-oriented.^ See, e.g., '403

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objects.") Works, in particular composite works, can be
organized in hierarchies or other "acyclic" structures. ('403
6:52-54, 9:21-23 and cols. 9-12 in both '012 & '403, '403 32:5-
7).

(ii) a first secure container
rule at least in part
governing an aspect of
access to or use of said first
secure container governed
item, the first secure
container rule having been
received from a third

"secure container rule" is indefinite, but as used by InterTrust in
its 3-1 Statement, this element would include "usage rights,"
certificates, and repository and rendering system software.
Usage rights are written using a usage rights grammar, and can
come from a 2"^ 3"*, 4*, or n'^ source. See e.g. Stefik '012
6:42-47, 18:52 et seq., Glossary and Fig. 15. Controls (which
InterTrust alleges is synonymous with "rules") can be associated

^ It was thus obvious to use any known object oriented techniques, such as in Smalltalk, Bento, OpenDoc, or
OLE/COM, in connection with disclosures of Stefik. (Likewise for CNl/IMA 94, Choudhury/Maxemchuk,
TygarA'ee, Blaze, etc.) (5ce e.g. Microsoft's prior '683 PLR 3-3 Staicmeni for full citations). See, for example, W.
LaLonde, J. Pugh, Inside Smalltalk (Prentice Hall 1990); Harris ct al., Apple Bento. Specification v l.QdS (July
1993); Peter Coad, "Object Oriented Patterns" (Comm. of the ACM, Sept. 1992); OLE 2 Proa-a mmers Reference
vol. 1 (Microsoft Press 1994). For example, using the observer design pattern or model view controller or broadcast
pattern, objects can initiate notifications regarding embedded objects, e.g., objects may be saved to secure data
stream and transferred to other controls. Another example is the COM Service Control Manager.

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